Infielder Quotes

You know what you're going to get with Brent. He's not going to blow an 86 mile per hour fastball by you, but he's going to keep the ball down and keep the infielders in the game. They tend to play good defense behind him. - Walt Patynski

You can't grieve too much ? you're down two infielders right now. You just have to try and work your way through it, that's all. - Wayne Graham

When you're sitting in the dugout, you don't appreciate it. But when you see it on the replay ... I think that's one of the best plays I've ever seen by any infielder. - Ozzie Guillen

When your infielder can't go out and play, you get a little nervous. You start to look around and inventing things on how you could get through it if certain things happen. - Ron Gardenhire

When we hadn't played some of these teams yet, sometimes those infielders who hadn't seen him didn't know how fast he was. So they'd take their time, and next thing they knew, he was a step ahead of them [on the throw]. You'd see them out there, just shaking their heads. - Tim Purpura

What it really does [if you're a player] is it gives you an ability to play more. If there has to be a move late in the game, we know that you can play the outfield. Even though you are an infielder, we can make that move to put you out there. The more positions you play, the more opportunity there is to play. And I think these guys know that, and it gives these guys a lot of versatility as far as moves go. - Tom Foley

We're trying to get the middle infielders involved. - Jerry Narron

We'll probably take on another infielder, another outfielder, definitely a catcher and Geary is probably coming back. Gavin (Floyd), we'll kind of wait and see. - Charlie Manuel

We'll look at how they fit. Can [the backups] play three positions? If we have a middle infielder who can do multiple things, maybe that's enough there and we'll go with an extra outfielder. We'll just see. - Larry Beinfest

We were being turned down by backup catchers and backup infielders. - Omar Minaya